Drinking-fountain.



A. MOE. DRINKING FOUNTAIN. APPLICATION FILED MAY}, 1911.

Patented July 11,1911.

To all tohom it may conc emf UNITED ST TES PATENT: OFFICE;

- AARON 1'3. MOE, or MAYWOOD," ILLINOIS.

- j DRINKIlVG-FOUNTAIN.

- Be it known that I, AARON B.'Mon, a citizen of the'UnitedSt-ates, residing at1501 South Second 'avenue village of Maywood,

This invention relates to barometric .wa'tering fountains'for poultry or small animals, or fountains of thatfcl'ass in which a supply of water is contained in a reservoir -ples of the present invention is illustrated in 'or tank from which it flows into a shallow dish or trough; being maintained in the lat; ter at a predetermined level and. prevented from overflowing the same by atmospheric pressure. N

One of the' objects of the present inventionis .to provide a device'of the sort above described which may be manufactured at smallcost and which shall be simple and efiicient in its operation. 1

A form of device embodying the princithe accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a vertical section through the device. Fig. 2 is a view partly in elevation and partly in vertical section, showing the device with its cover removed. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line 3 3 of Fig.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view, in p p.

Qspective, of a portion of the wall of the inner tank or-reservoir,'showin'g a modified form of construction;

As shown 1n said drawmgs, the devlce comprises a shallow dish or trough 1 in which the water is maintained at approxinately the level indicated; va tank or reser-- voir 2 for supplying'water to said. dish; 40.,

Said. cover 3 is provided near'its lower edge 1 with an openinga through whichthe water issupplied to the dish .11; The tank 2 is also provided with an opening 6 near its bottom for the escape of water into the cover 3 when the latter is placed in position '5-5' v ring now in more'detail to these parts, said over said reservoir, and said opening 6 is closed by a'valve 7 durlng the time when the cover 3 is removed for the purpose of filling said-reservoir;'being 'agaii opened when said cover is replaced by the engagement of said cover with said valve. Refersaid reservoir.

secured to said Specification of LettersIatent. Y Patented July 11, 1911; Application filed May. 1, 1911. Serial No. 624,304. I I i I dish 1 is here shown as made of sheet metal and 1s circular in form; Rising from its 1nter-1or is an approximately cylindrical tank or reservoir 2 open at the. top and like wise made of sheet metal. Said tank or reservoir 2 is rolled inward at its top as indicated, in order to. add strength thereto and facilitate the placing of the cover 3 over it; and for the -latter purpose also, said tank 2 isnot exactly oylindric, but is made of slightly'decreasing. diameter from its bottom to its top. The cover 3' is. correspondingly tapered, whereby itslarger bottom wall may be easily and quickly placed the smaller top'wall of said tank 2.

tank 2, being of slightlylarger dimensions in order tolfit over the latter as shown. Its

bottom. edge is rolled out-ward for the pur- 5 erably made conicallin shape in order to prevent poultry from roosting upon it. .open ng i is placed at such height from the The bottom edge as may be determined. upon for the'dept-h of thewater in the dish 1; allowance being made for the fact that the water will rise in'the dish a very small distance abovethe topedge of said opening; due to theexpansion of the air in the upper part of the cover 3 which is relieved ofsuch em .ternal pressure as is required to support the depth of water in said cover 3. Allowance must also be made forthe fact that small a quantity of water contained in the annular space-between the reservoir and its cover" will run down into the dish 1 wheuthe 9 for the. purpose of filling cover isremoved The valve 7 comprises, a bent valve arm 12, preferably made of spring wire, attached atone end to the wall of the tank 2, and extending downward and through the openii ig 6 into the tank, being provided with a --x"fa-lve disk 13 upon its inner 'end. Said valvedisk 13 may be made of leather or other suitable material-and may-be attached 5 to said wire by means of small metal disks or washers 14 as indicated, the latterbeing wire by soldering'or in other convenient manner. In Fig. 1 is shown-the manner in which the cover 3, upon being placed over the tank 2, engages with said valve to open the same; it being evident over 70 The cover 3 is similar inits shape to the that when saidcover is slid downward into place, its lower edge will engage with the wire valve arm 12 and press the same inward to open said valve. The outward '-rol ling of the lower edge of said cover, as

walls of said tank and its cover the same distance apart all around their circumferences; said means, as shown in Figs. 1 to 3 inclusive, taking the form of vertical corrugations in the wall of said tank. As a modification of this construction however, in Fig. 4 is shown a radially extending flange or rib 16, of which three or more'may be secured to the outer wall of said tank; each rib comprising a piece of sheet metal bent into angularform and secured to said wall by soldering or otherwise. The upper part 'of each flange or rib is made wedge-shaped,

' asshown, in order to facilitate the placing of the'cover 3 over it. A handle 17 of any' convenient form may be attached to' the conical top of the cover 3 to permit of its being easily removed and replaced upon the tank 2 as above described.

In the operation of the device, the cover '3 is removed and'water is poured into the tank 2, from which it is prevented from escaping by the valve 7. The cover is then replaced, whereupon the valve- 7 is opened and the water escapes into the cover 3 and through the opening 4 into the dish 1, rising in the same to substantially the height of the top edge of said opening 4:; at which level it is maintained as water is consumed from said dish, by replenishment from the supply in said cover 3.

As the valve? is in operation only temporarily during the brief period when the cover 3 is removed andthe tank-2 being filled, it

is evident that the efiiciency of the device will not be materially impaired even if said valve should leak quite considerably; and therefore it is not necessary that great care be taken in its construction, but the same may be quite simply and cheaply constructed, in the form above described, or in some equivalent form.

- I claim as my invention:

1. In a fountain, the combination of a trough, a reservoir having an opening c0m municating therewith, a valve controlling said opening, a cover for said reservoir adapted to extend into said trough, and means for operating said valve through-the movement of said cover.

2. In' a fountain, the combination of a trough, a supply reservoir having an opening communicating therewith, a valve controlling said opening, andaremov'able cover for saidsupply reservoir, extending into said trough, and adapted to engage with said valve.

8. Ina fountain, the combination of a trough, a supply reservoir having an opening communicating therewith, a valve con- -trolling said opening, a removable cover for said reservoir, closed at its upper end and 'adapted to extend into said trough, and

means for operating said valve through the movement of said cover.

4. In a fountain, the combination of a trough, a supply reservoir having an openingcommunicating therewith, a valve controlling said opening, and a removable cover forsaid supply reservoir, said cover extending into said trough and being closed at its upper end, and adapted to engage with said va ve.

5. In a fountain, the combination of a trough, a supply reservoir having an openscribed my-name in the presence of two 'witnesses this 27th day of April 1911.

AARON B.

' Witnesses: I

MARK E. OTIS,

OHRISTIANSON. 

